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The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford
John Filion · Random House Canada, 2015.
Pages: 359
Format: Print book |
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The first book to go beyond the scandal and distraction of the world's most infamous local politician, and reveal what drives Rob Ford and the many voters who steadfastly support him. Eye-opening and at times frightening, The Only Average Guy cuts through the uproar that followed Ford... |
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Stokely: A Life
Peniel E. Joseph · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 399
Format: Hardcover |
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Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. A firebrand who straddled both the American civil rights and Black Power movements, Carmichael... |
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Book Cover Designs
Matthew Goodman · Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Browse more than 500book cover designs and listen to more than 50 of today's top designers discuss their process for creating the perfect book cover. Award-winning creative professionals fromaround the world have applied astonishingly clever cover concepts that playslyly on titles and themes... |
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God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother
Amy Seek · Farrar Straus Giroux
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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A searching, eloquent memoir about the joys and hardships of open adoptionGod and Jetfire is a mother's account of her decision to surrender her son in an open adoption and of their relationship over the twelve years that follow. Facing an unplanned pregnancy at twenty-two, Amy Seek... |
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TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald
Timothy L O'Brien · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Available for the first time in a decade-the book that launched a $5 billion lawsuit--with a new introduction by the author in which O'Brien reflects on the recent wave of TrumpMania. This entertaining look inside the world of Donald Trump is chock full of rip-roaring anecdotes, jaw-dropping... |
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Dogfella: How an Abandoned Dog Named Bruno Turned This Mobster's Life Around--A Memoir
James Guiliani · Da Capo Press
Pages: 239
Format: Print book |
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How did a former mob enforcer become a compassionate advocate for animals in need of loving homes? How did his hardened heart open up to the plight of abused and abandoned pets?James "Head" Guiliani was an unlikely candidate to become a passionate animal rescuer. Raised in a religious... |
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One of These Things First
Steven S Gaines · Delphinium Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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One of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15 year old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties, and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother's bra and girdle store, to Manhattan's fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic,... |
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In It for the Long Run: A Musical Odyssey
Jim Rooney · University of Illinois Press
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback |
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Inspired by the Hank Williams and Leadbelly recordings he heard as a teenager growing up outside of Boston, Jim Rooney began a musical journey that intersected with some of the biggest names in American music including Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Bill Monroe, Muddy Waters, and Alison Krauss.... |
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Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic
Mark Blake · Backbeat Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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(Book) . Freddie Mercury was one of rock's most dazzling front men. When he died in 1991, the music world lost one of its most flamboyant characters, as well as a supremely talented writer and vocalist. Best known as the lead singer of Queen, his amazing four-octave voice was a distinctive... |
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